This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The author's lesson, message, or moral about life. A) Allusion. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 2. Comparing two unlike things A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 3. What is an Onomatopoeia? A) An exaggerated statement. B) A word that imitates the sound it represents. C) The use of the same beginning consonant sound in a line or verse. D) A group of lines in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A word that imitates the sound it represents. 4. A form of poetry that tells a story, such as "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" A) Blank Verse. B) Free Verse. C) Epic. D) Narrative Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative Poem. 5. Which term refers to a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 6. The patterns of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables; the musical quality A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 7. What is an exaggeration? A) Simile. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 8. The order/pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. A) Internal rhyme. B) Meter. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 9. Use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 10. What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? ("Dreams" by Langston Hughes)Hold fast to dreams/For if dreams die/Life is a broken-winged bird/That cannot fly./ A) Father. B) AABB. C) ABAC. D) ABCB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABCB. 11. How do you tell a poem's rhyme scheme? A) The rhythm of a poem. B) Rhymes occurring inside the lines of a poem. C) The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem (marked with the alphabet). D) The "paragraph" of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem (marked with the alphabet). 12. A pair of rhyming lines in a poem, considered a unit A) Poetry. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 13. A humorous five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme A) Lyric poem. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 14. A regular pattern of rhythm A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Metric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 15. What is Refrain? A) Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines. B) A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poems. C) A contradictory idea that may actually be true. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines. 16. What is the importance of form in a poem? A) Contributes to the meaning and mood of the poem. B) Give the poem a musical feel. C) It shows there is a change in the writing. D) It helps create the beat in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It helps create the beat in the poem. 17. Compares two unlike things using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. What does the term 'onomatopoeia' refer to in poetry? A) Words that imitate the sound they are naming. B) A comparison of two unlike things using like or as. C) Giving human qualities to non-human things. D) Repetition of consonant sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words that imitate the sound they are naming. 19. Why do writers love to use assonance? A) It reminds them of their naughty brother. B) It creates a deeper meaning. C) It helps their writing rhyme and flow. D) They want all the words to start with the same letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It helps their writing rhyme and flow. 20. What is the purpose of onomatopoeia in poetry? A) To represent something else. B) To imitate sounds. C) To give human qualities to something that is not human. D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To imitate sounds. Next →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books